By Alexa Rodriguez
Dec 28, 2020
Selena Quintanilla will be honored with a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award at the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021.
The Recording Academy announced the full list of honorees for its 2021 Special Merit Awards on Tuesday. Other honorees to be recognized at the annual awards show include Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Lionel Hampton, Marilyn Horne, Salt-N-Pepa and Talking Heads. Additionally, Ed Cherney, Benny Golson and Kenny Babyface Edmonds are Trustees Award honorees, while Daniel Weiss is the Technical GRAMMY Award recipient. As we welcome the new class of Special Merit Award honorees, it gives us a chance to reward and recognize the influence they ve had in the music community regardless of genre, Harvey Mason Jr., Interim President/CEO of the Recording Academy, shared in a statement. As a music creator and music lover, I am grateful that we are able to look back at our influences and see the i
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Recording Academy Announces 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients
December 23, 2020 at 1:03 PM (PT)
Recording Academy Announces Lifetime Achievment Recipients
The RECORDING ACADEMY announced YESTERDAY (12/22) the recipients of the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awards. GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE, LIONEL HAMPTON, MARILYN HORNE, SALT-N-PEPA, SELENA and TALKING HEADS will be honored on the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards® on JANUARY 31st, 2021.
In addition, ED CHERNEY, BENNY GOLSON and KENNY BABYFACE EDMONDS are Trustees Award honorees; and DANIEL WEISS is the Technical GRAMMY® Award recipient.
The Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates performers who have made outstanding contributions of artistic significance to the field of recording, while the Trustees Award honors such contributions in areas other than performance. The RECORDING ACADEMY s Nati
Selena, Salt-N-Pepa & Talking Heads land Lifetime Achievement Grammys
Salt-N-Pepa and rockers
Special Merit Awards are hip-hop icons
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, opera singer
Marilyn Horne, and late jazz musician
Lionel Hampton.
Trustees Awards, with R&B legend
Kenny ‘Babyface’ Edmonds, saxophonist
Benny Golson, and noted producer and engineer
Ed Cherney, who lost his battle with cancer last year (2019), due to be saluted for their “significant contributions… to the field of recording”, while engineer
Daniel Weiss has been recognized with the
Technical Grammy Award.
“As we welcome the new class of Special Merit Award honorees, it gives us a chance to reward and recognize the influence they’ve had in the music community regardless of genre,”
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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five are among several artists to be honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Grammy Awards in January. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
SANTA MONICA, CA The Recording Academy announced Tuesday that Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Lionel Hampton, Marilyn Horne, Salt-N- Pepa, Selena and the Talking Heads as recipients of Lifetime Achievement Awards to be presented during the 63rd annual Grammy Awards next month.
The Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates performers who have made outstanding contributions of artistic significance to the field of recording.
Other 2021 Special Merit Awards to be presented at the Jan. 31 ceremony include the Trustee Award to Ed Cherney, Benny Golson and Kenny Babyface Edmonds, as well as a Technical Grammy Award to Daniel Weiss.
By Noah Diaz
Dec 23, 2020
Jennifer Lopez Says She s Thought About Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell s Marriage Approach: No Rush
Jennifer Lopez is opening up about her wedding plans with fiancé Alex Rodriguez.
On Monday, the singer appeared on Andy Cohen s SiriusXM show,
Radio Andy, where she revealed that the couple has considered not getting married at all, taking pointers from Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell who have been together for 38 years together without tying the knot. We ve talked about that for sure, the singer said of Hawn and Russell s approach to marriage. At our age, we’ve both been married before, it’s like, do we get married? Do we not? What does it mean for us?